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On the Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights.".

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226106713

ISBN-139780226106717

eBay Product ID (ePID)70088

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Number of Pages150 Pages

Publication NameOn the Heights of Despair

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

SubjectHistory & Surveys / Modern, Emotions, Essays

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Psychology, Literary Collections

AuthorE. M. Cioran

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal194

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Imagining Cioran On Being Lyrical How Distant Everything Is! On Not Wanting to Live The Passion for the Absurd The World and I Weariness and Agony Despair and the Grotesque The Premonition of Madness On Death Melancholy Nothing Is Important Ecstasy The World in Which Nothing Is Solved The Contradictory and the Inconsequential On Sadness Total Dissatisfaction The Bath of Fire Disintegration On the Reality of the Body I Do Not Know On Individual and Cosmic Loneliness Apocalypse The Monopoly of Suffering Absolute Lyricism The Meaning of Grace The Vanity of Compassion Eternity and Morality Moment and Eternity History and Eternity Not to Be a Man Anymore Magic and Fatality Unimaginable Joy The Ambiguity of Suffering All Is Dust Enthusiasm as a Form of Love Light and Darkness Renunciation The Blessings of Insomnia On the Transubstantiation of Love Man, the Insomniac Animal Truth, What a Word! The Beauty of Flames The Paucity of Wisdom The Return to Chaos Irony and Self-Irony On Poverty The Flight from the Cross The Cult of Infinity Transfiguration of Banality The Burden of Sadness Degradation through Work The Sense of Endings The Satanic Principle of Suffering An Indirect Animal Impossible Truth Subjectivity Homo... Love in Brief Nothing Matters The Sources of Evil Beauty's Magic Tricks Man's Inconsistency Capitulation Facing Silence The Double and His Art Nonsense E. M. Cioran: A Short Chronology

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SynopsisBorn of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights." On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation. "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."--Bill Marx, Boston Phoenix "The dark, existential despair of Romanian philosopher Cioran's short meditations is paradoxically bracing and life-affirming. . . . Puts him in the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."-- Publishers Weekly, starred review "This is self-pity as epigram, the sort of dyspeptic pronouncement that gets most people kicked out of bed but that has kept Mr. Cioran going for the rest of his life."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review